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The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers on these instruments, 1892
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1THE
2FIDDLE FANCIER'S GUIDE.
4CHAPTER I.
5The Bow and Truth.
7THE Arabs have a saying that the best discourse is that which is "short and clear." No doubt they mean "clear and short." That is, at least, how I should prefer to understand the apothegm—lucidity first, and brevity afterwards, in as far as it may be possible. In whatever order they appear, I trust both virtues may be found illustrated in the method of this manual, but I shall make, at any rate, a sincere effort to secure the presence of one of them by beginning at once the consideration of my subject.
9Eleven years ago, when writing a work on the history of the violin, I began by referring to what was then, in my view, the more important factor in dealing with the antiquity of the instrument, namely, the violin bow, and I pointed out that the hard and fast conclusion which then prevailed with regard to the age of this adjunct was not altogether a very philosophical
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